The Shortest History of Eugenics: From "Science" to Atrocity - How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global policy with the aim of determining who had the right to have children-and who was worthy of life. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was all...